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6.4 Obstacles in Maintaining Information Flow in Supply Chain of LPG: - A typical attitude that befalls when several departments or groups do not want to share information or knowledge with other individuals in the company. Silo mentality manifest “I win, you lose” (Wisner el at 2006). It is considered as one of the most significant obstacle to overcome the supply chain management (Cachon, 2006). - Lack of information visibility along the supply chain members is a common problem. For example,…

Companies choose to use these these nonrenewable natural resources, and as a result create harmful living conditions. The greenhouse gas emissions from the southern US and Mexico have increased from seven billion metric tons in 1990 to over eight billion in 2005. Due to NAFTA, there has been an increase in imports and exports between the three countries. However, the primary sources of transportation for NAFTA is by trucks and railroads, which both use significant…

A senior thesis is meant to shown the learned knowledge and skills acquired during a college education. At Kettering University this is usually done in the form of paper detailing a student's attempt to solve a real world problem at their Co-Op employer. A skill every professional should have is the ability to make things clear, whether in an discussion, an email, or a thesis. This is done through a understanding of rhetoric and its many parts. In Ryan Guidroz’s CUE project, RAFT- Adaptive…

A power plant annually generates 20 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste, every nuclear plant combined annually produces 2,000 metric tons. As stated by the Greenpeace Organization the only way to safely dispose of radioactive waste is for the Nuclear Energy to be isolated for over 1,000 years. As proven by leaders, law and curriculum…

Many do not posses much knowledge on palm oil; such as the ways it affects one’s health and how it is produced. Even though most are unfamiliar with these aspects of palm oil, they are most likely well acquainted with it and use it on a regular—if not daily— basis. Palm oil, although present in many everyday products, has immoral and unethical factors of production. Palm oil is a type of oil that comes from the fruit of palm trees. Many companies take advantage of the fact that palm oil is…

Important assessment structures demand obvious metrics that specify cost and results for incidents of care (Harvard Business Review, 2011). The move toward this standardization needs to come from health care leadership in order to make this a reality (Harvard Business Review, 2011). How can we have quality…

Critical thinking is a part of my daily routine in life, both personally and professionally, I guess you could say it’s the way I’m wired. Having a disciplined approach to problem-solving life’s obstacles using my critical thinking skills that I have attained through school and work allows me to focus and understand two constants. First, change is going to happen, regardless, if you’re ready for it or not. Second, one must be disciplined in the process and keep an open mind, don’t drive the data…

Sometimes power and privilege of a particular class of people in the organization are not easily recognizable They remain in a subtle form and are not expressed in clear terms. When the privilege is with ourselves, we may not feel anything but while it is with the others, We feel infuriated. For example, as a White American person if I go to a restaurant with one of by African American friend, it is most likely that the waiter, at the end of the meal being taken, furnishes the bill to me and not…

In the “Exploring globalization” textbook (page 52), the topic is the “Banana wars”. The banana wars was a six year trade battle between the US and the EU. The US complained that the EU broke free trade rules by giving the smaller banana companies special access to European markets, through removing tariffs. The page mentions, “the transnationals protested the european policy, saying that it was unfair”. I believe that it is fair, though it is not equal. Fairness also known as equity, ensures…

One application for spatial cognitive models is navigation. Spatial navigation models can be classified in two classes which are low-level biologically inspired models by neural machinery and high-level descriptive models based on egocentric and allocentric spatial encoding strategies (Manning et.al, 2014). However, these models all lost the prediction and explanation about the users’ navigation behavior. In 2014, Manning provided a cognitive map-based model of human wayfinding named MAGELLAN,…